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The view of Whistler from the mountain top with the Winter Olympics stone icon.   Photos by author   Every two years west coast Estonians host a 4 to 8-day event at one of the five major cities on the west coast of the Continent. The event became known as West...

The Central and East European Coalition sent a letter on October 29 to Senate and House chairs and ranking members of the Appropriations Committees, urging them to provide financial assistance for the economic, security, and humanitarian relief needs of Ukraine.   Among the 18 groups that signed the letter were...

Seto Week, which is held in Paris from November 18-25, introduces traditional polyphonic singing of the Setos (Seto leelo), their handicraft, traditions, cuisine, history, language and literature. Never before has Seto culture been so widely introduced in France. The main event of the week is the two-day conference organized in...

The fully state-owned Nordic Aviation Group, in co-operation with five European flight operators, started serving passengers on eight different routes – Amsterdam, Brussels, Copenhagen, Stockholm, Oslo, Kiev, Trondheim and Vilnius – from November 8. Currently the role of Nordic Aviation is limited to ordering the flights as the company does...

The Estonian national airline will fold following a decision by the European Commission that funding given to the company by the Estonian government was not in line with EU regulations. Estonian Air , founded in 1991, does not have the funds to refund the state and declared bankruptcy. The Commission...

November 3, 2015 – Despite the impact of the digital revolution, more than half of consumers in New York prefer to receive information over the phone rather than going online, research has revealed. The study of 2,234 US respondents, conducted by audio branding specialist PH Media Group, found 51 per...

Stanford Librarian Michael Keller became an Estonian e-resident on November 3, by receiving a digital identity card at the Estonian Embassy in Washington. In addition to being a symbol of his continuous support towards Estonian and Baltic studies at Stanford, his status as an e-resident also simplifies his communication with...

The Gallery of Estonia won third prize at Expo Milano 2015 Awards in the category of Exhibition Design among the pavilions with a surface smaller than 2,000 square meters. The gold medal in the category went to Austria, and second place to Iran. The international jury of Expo Milan 2015...

Tallinn University recently published "The Physical Anthropology of Finno-Ugric Peoples,” based on Karin Mark's research from 1955-1976. Mark, a student and assistant to Estonia's first anthropologist Juhan Aul, measured all Finno-Ugric peoples, as well as the Turkic and Indo-Europeans neighboring them. Mark meticulously noted down 32 physical parameters of 12,652...

The Estonian Police and Border Guard Board (PPA) is sending a 25-man unit, ESTPOL1, on a month-long mission to Slovenia. The aim of the mission is to help the Slovenian police in areas near the Croatian border, where thousands of refugees arrive each day, PPA said. ESTPOL 1, made up...